You can either attend the live sessions or take the course on-demand at your leisure.

NAFEMS e-learning gives you the best of both worlds, giving you real, practical knowledge that you can use day-to-day to improve your analyses.

What will you learn?

The basics of CFD

Finite Difference vs. Finite Volume vs. Finite Elements

Pressure vs. Density-based solvers; Implicit vs. Explicit

Turbulence and Heat Transfer Modelling

Various errors and uncertainties and how to reduce them

What questions will this course answer?

What are the differences between various differencing and meshing schemes?

What are the basics of turbulence modelling?

What are errors and uncertainties in CFD and how do you reduce them?

Who should attend?

engineers who are new to CFD simulation

engineers who need a refresher on CFD

managers working with CFD simulation engineers

This course offers attendees the fundamental knowledge for using CFD in real life engineering applications. Through a simple and moderately technical approach, this course describes the steps in the CFD process and provides benefits and issues for using CFD analysis in understanding of complicated flow phenomena and its use in the design process.

Best practices for reducing errors and uncertainties in CFD analysis are also presented. Many of the governing equations will be presented for illustration purposes but will not be dealt in depth in this course. Strong effort is made for the course to be CFD software neutral. However, examples from some of the more well-known and popular software will be used throughout the sessions.

The course is completely code independent.

A full set of notes in PDF format will be available for download. Each session is presented live and is available for review via a streamable recording.

Personal passwords are provided to allow you to access e-learning backup material via our special bulletin board. Reading lists, homework submissions, supplementary data are all stored as files on the bulletin board.

Interaction via the bulletin board is strongly encouraged to obtain the most from the e-learning class. Typically the board runs for 4 weeks after the last live class sessions, giving you plenty of time to catch up with homework, review and ask questions.

Note: homework is purely voluntary!

Course Process and Details

Students will join the audio portion of the meetings by utilizing the VoIP (i.e. headset connected to the computer via headphone and microphone jacks) or by calling into a standard toll line. If you are interested in additional pricing to call-in using a toll-free line, please send an email to: e-learning @ nafems.org .

Course Program

Note: This is a three-week course. Each session represents one 2.5-hour session each week.

Session 3Computational Fluid Dynamics Process

CFD Process

Geometry

Meshing

Setup

Boundary Conditions

Solving & Monitoring

Visualization

Numerical Solutions Accuracy

CFD Best Practices

CFD Trends

Special Note(s):

Telephony surcharges may apply for attendees who are located outside of North America, South America and Europe. These surcharges are related to individuals who join the audio portion of the web-meeting by calling in to the provided toll/toll-free teleconferencing lines. We have made a VoIP option available so anyone attending the class can join using a headset (headphones) connected to the computer. There is no associated surcharge to utilize the VoIP option, and is actually encouraged to ensure NAFEMS is able to keep the e-Learning course fees as low as possible. Please send an email to the e-Learning coordinator (e-learning @ nafems.org ) to determine if these surcharges may apply to your specific case.

Just as with a live face-to-face training course, each registration only covers one person. If you plan to register a large group (10+), please send an email to e-learning @ nafems.org in advance for group discounts.

Details

Would you like us to notify you when the next course on Practical CFD is open for enrollment? If so, add yourself to the eLearning Waitlist!

Session 1:Wednesday, January 17th

Session 2:Wednesday, January 24th

Session 3:Wednesday, January 31st

Note:

Once you register for the course using the "order" button (look up), you will receive your invoice, and the day before the course starts, an email invite to the class discussion board. Please note that no 'physical' goods will be mailed to you.

Please click here to view the FAQ section, or if you need to contact NAFEMS about this course.

Engineering Board PDH Credits

*It is your individual responsibility to check whether these e-learning courses satisfy the criteria set-out by your state engineering board. NAFEMS does not guarantee that your individual board will accept these courses for PDH credit, but we believe that the courses comply with regulations in most US states (except Florida, North Carolina, Louisiana, and New York, where providors are required to be pre-approved).